Allbee

“It may not strike you as it struck me,” said Allbee.

The Great Assimilator 2007

“It may not strike you as it struck me,” said Allbee.

The Great Assimilator 2007

And Allbee, the drunken anti-Semite in The Victim, the man who says that “evil is as real as sunshine,” chooses to speak loftily about his “honor” when he comes to oppress and exhaust Asa Leventhal.

The Great Assimilator 2007

And Allbee, the drunken anti-Semite in The Victim, the man who says that “evil is as real as sunshine,” chooses to speak loftily about his “honor” when he comes to oppress and exhaust Asa Leventhal.

The Great Assimilator 2007

And Allbee, the drunken anti-Semite in The Victim, the man who says that “evil is as real as sunshine,” chooses to speak loftily about his “honor” when he comes to oppress and exhaust Asa Leventhal.

The Great Assimilator 2007

“It may not strike you as it struck me,” said Allbee.

The Great Assimilator 2007

Arriving home one evening, Leventhal finds the door locked against him and Allbee in his, Leventhal's, bed with a prostitute.

Bellow's Gift Coetzee, J.M. 2004

But it appears that Allbee has been trying unsuccessfully to gas himself in the kitchen.

Bellow's Gift Coetzee, J.M. 2004

Leventhal dimly recalls the events but rejects the implication that the interview was part of a plot against Allbee.

Bellow's Gift Coetzee, J.M. 2004

Allbee now embarks on a tedious story from the past in which Allbee had fixed Leventhal up with an interview with his (Allbee's) boss, during which Leventhal had (on purpose, Allbee says) behaved insultingly, as a result of which Allbee lost his job.

Bellow's Gift Coetzee, J.M. 2004